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A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands with  Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages,  Traditions, and Other Usages of the Inhabitants

A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages, Traditions, and Other Usages of the Inhabitants

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A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages, Traditions, and Other Usages of the Inhabitants

by Williams, John

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London: J Snow 1837. Large 8vo. xviii, 589 pp., complete. Colour frontis by Baxter. Folding maps, several b/w plates. Original brown patterned publisher's cloth. Binding is rubbed and worn, minor foxing throughout. Minor splitting to spine, corners bumped. Gift inscription on the endpaper from Mrs. [Elizabeth] Fletcher to Mr Parken 'as a testimony of approbation for the care he took of the Library at Lancrigg' (in the Winter of 1850). Elizabeth Fletcher had asked her friend William Wordworth to find her a house. Lancrigg was it, and Wordsworth had arranged the transaction and been instrumental in the renovation. Visited by the Literati, she was friends with Scott, Southey, Tennyson and both Coleridges. She was also interested women's welfare, education and the emancipation of slaves. She was also a friend and benefactor of the Italian revolutionary Mazzini. . Very Good. Original Cloth. 3rd Thousand. 1837.

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Title
A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands with Remarks Upon the Natural History of the Islands, Origin, Languages, Traditions, and Other Usages of the Inhabitants
Author
Williams, John
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Original Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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3rd Thousand
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
J Snow 1837
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1837
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Large 8vo
Keywords
Travel,History,Exploration,South Sea Islands,New World,Polynesia,, Tahiti
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